By now, you probably know all about the backstory of React and how it helps even your most complex user interfaces sing performantly. For all the awesomeness that React brings to the table, getting started with it (kinda like this sentence) is not the most straightforward thing. It has a steep learning curve filled with many small and big hurdles:

You write so clearly! Thank you! I think it’s worth it to often look back at the basics of a build system. Getting too complex in so many directions too early on in the learning game can be very counter productive.

That is really strange! I’ll keep tracking this periodically. If viewing the page via localhost is the 100% guaranteed fix, then I may have to adjust my instructions in the future to rely on that as opposed to directly previewing via the file system